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Sunday, April 09, 2006

One-Pot Polenta with Herbs

Having a little herb garden next to the back porch makes it easy to just go out with scissors and snip some goodness to put into a simple dinner. Here's an easy one-pot polenta dinner that you can make in the microwave. Cook and prep time together is less than a half hour, part of which you can use to put together a nice green salad to go with it. I might add cooked chickpeas or beans to this when I next make it, for more complete protein.

In microwave-safe dish, put:

1 c polenta

2 c hot water

1/4 c red onion

1 c frozen corn kernels

paprika

fresh herb snips

dash of light olive oil

dash salt or soy sauce (optional)

Microwave on high for 4 mins covered, stir, nuke for 4 mins uncovered, stir, nuke another 3 mins, stir. Cover and let set for 3 or 4 minutes. Ta-dah! You'll probably want to add salt, we tend to cook without it and add it to taste, or crumble a salty cheese like havarti or feta into this dish at serving time.

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Grew up on a small homestead in New England, moved to the big city (Boston) for school and then dropped out. Self-taught technologist. Senior sysadmin for many years, now engineering project manager. Co-author of The Practice of System & Network Administration 2nd Edition and The Practice of Cloud System Administration.

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